diacriticals

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Jinavamsa at aol.com said:
> 
> I understand that Sanskrit long vowels are doubled (replacing the macron or
> older circumflex accent) and that consonantal diacriticals include a
> preceding period for the retroflex (cerebral):
>  .r .r .th .d .dh .n .m .s
...

The transliteration scheme you are describing is designed for the input
of Sanskrit using only 7-bit ASCII characters.  It was designed by Frans
Velthuis for use with his Devanagari TeX package and is fully documented
in a file called manual.tex that is distributed with that package.  The
package is called devnag.zip (or something like that).

Dominik